Bombay Dreams

We left Bali for Bombay, stopping in Singapore for a couple of nights.
As this was our 3rd visit to Singapore, we won't bore you with the details, but we stayed in Chinatown this time and had delicious Chinese food.,
We arrived in Bombay or Mumbai and stayed with family friends for 4 nights. Karan came to pick us up from the airport and Hetvi; his wife had a delicious, authentic meal waiting for us - yummy!
That evening we all went out to a Bharat Natyam, which is a South Indian dance show. Full of colours, expert dance moves and great live music. The next day we chilled Indian style with Karan's family next door and all had a big breakfast together. Karan then took us out to where the locals shop for an "experience", which was fantastic. Hustle and bustle, with a mix of smells including incense sticks and samosas cooking.
That evening Karan's parents returned from a short break and we all had a meal together, joined with Ashok Uncle from London (Shivani's Sister's Father-In-Law), who also happened to be visiting India at the same time as us.
The next morning we got up early (for us anyway) and took a stroll along Juhu Beach, just 5 mins by car/scooter from Karan's house. We then went and visited a beautiful and very peaceful temple, which is where the photo was taken. Stopped on the way home at the roadside for a coconut drink drink and carried on our day..... tbc......

McDonalds

Could this be the smallest McDonalds in the world ever?!
We had to post this photo of a McDonalds stand in Bali Airport.
Basically, you place your order and they then get it from the restaurant down the road outside, with a waiting time of 15 minutes.

Bali

After active Cambodia we had 5 days in Bali.
We arrived and went straight to Ubud; central Bali, where our hotel was situated in between rice fields and Palm trees. On our 1st night it sounded like we were in deepest jungle as the restaurant next door had a live performance of traditional Balinese dance, which was accompanied by jungle drums. Couple that with the noises of toads from the rice fields and other strange creatures, that we could not identify.
Ubud was beautiful - very green with a relaxed chilled out vibe. We stayed in The Monkey Forest and had the pleasure of walking through it into town everyday, which is where we met the little fella in the photo eating a banana. No we're not refering to Andrew in the local market!!
We then went and stayed at the beach in Seminyak, where we totally chilled; spending our days walking the beaches, watching sunsets and the American election - "Yes we can"

Check out some of the sunset photos we took........
A Balinese guy saw Shivani posing and showed her how to do it!

The People Of Cambodia

We would not be doing Cambodia justice if we didn't feature the people in one of our posts.
These pictures are all of people going about their business; whether cycling home from school, catching a ride home with some monks, taking your cows for a walk, or fishing in the river for that night's dinner.
Although life is tough, the Cambodian people are some of the warmest we've met on our travels so far.

Banteay Srei and Kbal Spean

The 1st couple of photos are of a temple called Banteay Srei with very intricate stonework, which is said could only have been done by a woman.
Cambodia is also famous for being littered with landmines from the days of The Khmer Rouge. We saw clear evidence of this with the sign you see in the photo; read closely and you'll understand what we mean. We took the advice we were given not to stray far from the well trodden paths of tourists, as there was even now a high risk of stepping on a landmine.
Later we took a 1.5km walk up into the jungle of Siem Reap to trace a very special river and a place known as Kbal Spean. The river itself has sacred carvings in the riverbed and surrounding rocks. Carved hundreds of years ago by pesky monks and can still be seen to this day.

Aaaargh!!! More Temple Photos!!!!

As the title suggests..... More temple photos, including Shivani hanging around with Monks at Angkor Wat.

Tomb Raider

We went for our 3 day temple tour around The Angkor area and took lots and lots of photos. We've decided to only post the photos with us in them.
One of the temples we visited called Tha Phrom, was where the film Tomb Raider was filmed. So Shivani donned her combats and became Shivanjelina Jolie for the day. Andrew, as ever, was Andiana Jones - So, so SAD the pair of us!!

On a more serious note.... Although the photos look like they've come from a film set, these were real life temple ruins dating back from 900AD!